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• Worsted
• Almost certain to have got through, though beaten
• Surmounted (by)
• Outwitted the finest newspaper's chief
• Did better to dress up as arranged
• Put one's best suit on
• Guillotined? Finished losing head!
• Idiot introduced to silly prudes excelled
• Went beyond authorisation in certain department
• Defeated European saint buried in part of garden
• First edition taken to cleaners
• Got a jump on
• Outperformed
• Added whipped cream to, say
• Did a bit better than